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Chicago examiner vol xiii no 5 a m c * sunday Chicago august 4 1912 price five cent sunday all car unions ready to strike crisis to-morro w overwhelming vote of men to guit work unless pay raise is granted will be put before the officials wiahon says he fears the worst t*"he crisis m the street railway situation is expected to-morrow inter na:ional presided w d mahon and the union committees will meet the officials of the Chicago railways company and Chicago city rail rtj company and notify them officially of tiro strike vote taken upon tb answer of the companies will depend whether there will je psacr or a titrike aucorcuns to international president w d mahon the vote for a strike was the greatest ever cast m any of the wage disputes of the car men and tie tokl the examiner that the situation is so serious he is greatly worried over it if the companies fail to make any wage concessions there is nothing on earth that can prevent a strike said he developments of the day developments m the other troubles of the car men are as follows president mahon visited the offices of the county traction company to notify the officials that a strike would be called on its lines if the employes were not permitted to join any union they wished and also that an advance m wages must be paid none of the company officials could be found and president mahon left his card and asked that general manager chambers call i him up when he returned later president mahon said the matter would go over until to-morrow negotiations between the elevated railroad employes and pres ident britton i budd will be resumed to-morrow representatives of several un ions not affiliated with the car men but whose members work for the traction companies held a conferenc with the union committees and pledged that a sympa thetic strike would be called if the car men quit work none of the traction officials had anything to say of the situa tion except to declare they had not taken any steps to hire strike breakers as they had no fear a strike would be called kepi esentatives of the three unions involved m the wage controversies held an extended meeting m the briggs house m the afternoon a id con sidered what should be done to-morrow at the conference with the trac tion officials the almost unan.'muus vote for a strike cast by the car men ' was said to be an ultimatum to the railway officials that the companies must t-ither grant increases m wag.is or suffer a strike president mahon told tile members of the committees that avery care must be takc-n not to make any fatal moves m the negotiations to-mor row as he feared tue worst . mahon tells of strike danger as he left the conference president mahon explained to the examiner representative how serious the situation had become we were told by the traction officials at our last conference that under no conditions would they change the wage scale or working condi tions said president jlahon but they said that if we withdrew our de mands for higher wages they were willing to consider the working condi tions further that was their ultimatum i have learned since that they hive not changed their minds and therefore i fear the worst arrangements were made jestcrday to call a strike on the county fraction and suburban railroad companies lines early m the week pvo ici!;s a concession m wages was not made after negotiations with divi sion no 241 these lines are outside the city limits there are about 300 uupioyes on the two lines and they voted friday night to give president william quintan and other officers of division no 241 full power to call the strike m the event that the company officials refused to grant con ces.ions i president emil c schmidt is out of town and will not return until tuesday according to president mahon the committee is not likely to a.\::r the return of president schmidt but will take up the matter with superintendent chambers who is understood to have full authority declares no increase will be granted no increase m wages win be granted said superintendent cham bers we are losing money now and could not stand an advance if a strike occurs the companies will simply cease operations one of the demands of the Chicago railways company and Chicago city railway company which was made during the recent negotiations with the car men was for a contract for only one year this feature of the company's position was discussed by the union officials with a view of analyzing the purpose m view some of the labor officials contended that the two companies were ar.ticipating a merger of the surface lines m i that time and that they would wish to make changes that would otherwise *, ofoiciden by the contract if it extended over a longer term it was finally decided that one year was too short a term for a wage contract and that m the event peace was established they would insist upon a longer term than they hud themselves suggested to the traction of situation is very serious i'm greatly worried mahon che Chicago street railway situation is the most serious we ever had i am greatly worried from our conferences with the traction officials and informa tion that has come to us since we are led to believe that the com panies are determined not to grant any concessions m wages whatever if that turns out to be a fact it will be impossible to hold the men look at the result of the strike vote â€” 52 to 1 no such vote favoring a strike was ever given m the past by the Chicago car men especially those on the south side i hope the traction officials will appreciate the seriousness of the situation as i see it signed w d mahon president amalgamated association of street and electric rail road employes official vote of the car men for strike against Chicago railways s,747 117 Chicago city rwy..3,192 54 totals 8,939 171 silver bath palace sold to chicagoan h stevenson retired tailor pays 40,000 for noted shagbark farm place like fairy land italian gardens and winding paths realization of f b whipple's life dream boston mass aug 3 just one hour i and a half after harry m stevenson the retired Chicago tailor had been shown over the splendid house with the silver baths and the other wonders of the fam ous shagbark farm jie said i'li take it and made a 10,<Â»00 deposit ou the pur chase price of 40,000 the estate was the property of miss mary a morrill who for several years had been employed by the millionaire hotel man j heed w'hipple m n confidential capacity mr whipple spent between 50,000 and 300,000 ou the land and improvements the furnishings of the house cost sioo.ooo the house of the silver bnths was fumous for the entertainments given by the proprietor of thp touraiue young's anil parker's hotels visitors marveled at magnificence when a nobleman came to his door for foe and lodging at one of his justly famous hotels and began to prate about castles among the hills of scotland or m the mountains of italy mr whipple chuckled take a drive with me to-morrow he would say and i'll show you something besides an old ruin with a scented moat the visitors were told and correctly that the estate consisted of iso acres thut tue drawing room of the house had a topaz fireplace that the library was of carved mahogany that the coachman's quarters contained seven hnndsome living rooms and a bath that the help had four houses of six rooms each with silver bath that the garage held two motor cars when they snw the big stock barn and silo they admired the rare flowers of the green house tliey watched the gold fish of the big pond they wandered through the italian gnrdens they looked m wonder at the old english windmills they sauntered along the winding paths under the trees and upon the smooth golf course like a fairy land by that time the visitors could hardly believe that they were not walking m their dreams through a fairy place instead of being m the pretty town of lexington where the first revolutionary battle was foueht this is what mr stevenson gets for his 40,000 ninety of the 180 acres of the estate a mansion bouse containing twenty-two loniiis and seven baths the latter all made oc-j-are marble and fitted with solid sliver trimmings one of the baths is constructed along old roman lines with a pool to the floor on the first floor is the drawing room with a wonderful topaz fireplace n library finished in solid mahogany all of itfhicb is hand-carved living room and dining room the latter finished m old oak kitchen and servants quarters on the second floor there are seven sleeping rooms with seven bathrooms the third floor is devoted to guests and maids sleeping rooms a private golf course of uinc holes a stable with stalls for nine horses and ample carriage room and fitted out with the most modern fixtures and conveniences and verious other conveniences it cost mr whipple 20,000 a year to maintain the place the real estate agents claim however that owing to the fine ar rangement of water distribution four gar deners can manage the place and that the expense should not be over 8,000 a year half his brain removed soldier as well as ever after work of surgeons special cable to the examiner stockholm aug 3 the operation or removing half a human brain recently per formed on a soldier named blomquiÃŸt has been pronounced a complete success and the man is as well as ever a year ago blomquiÃŸt was accidentally shot m the head while going through some maneuvers half his brain was found to be injured and his only chance of life lay m the re moval operation when released from the hospital it was found that he had for gotten the meaning of the alphabet and the numerals doctors undertook to retench him and now he is agniu able to read and write 11,500 dogs on lusitania liner comes into port twelve hours late due to engine trouble jtkw york aug 3 twelve hours late due to an overheated bearing in the high pressure port turbine the liner i.usitnnia staggered into port to-day all her state roms filled with the advance runrd of re turning american tourists mrs e r keam and her sister mins mary pembleton brought over two pekinese terriers worth sl r oo and iq,ooo worth of hniry aber deen terriers were brought m by their own er walter x stern art thief college bred baffles jailed gentleman burglar who got 200,000 loot caught flees re-caught stole kellogg paintings 11 800 forgeries side line of man who long mystified the police burglaries one after the other m the bo:ues of south side millionaires mys terious crimes which during the past six months lad driven the police to despera tion were fully explained last night by a youth a college graduate who confessed thut he hud committed tueui all alining them was the robbery of the home of mrs charles r kellogg 11)20 prairie avenue iv which he stole oil paintings and other art objects valued at 55.000 ail told nis thefts aggregated 200,000 all the booty filling nine trunks was re covered last night by city detectives under captain j j halpin the confessed burglur is jacob f guth rle alias harry brown alias j foy 1013 prairie avenue graduate of the armour institute of technology arrested ov a forgery ehii/ge through the instrumentality of the pinkerton na tional detective agency iuthrie broke down and admitted that he was responsi ble for a long series of burglaries of all the jewelry paintings tapestries antiques silverware and other objects dart which uuthrie had stolen he bad sold not so much as a match safe he told i the police a hasty inventory of the con tents of his trunks confirmed his state ment rivals noted thieves of fiction besides burglarizing the homes of absent millionaires guthrie showed his versatility by forging checks for 11,800 which later went through the clearing house and were cached by the first national bank to nil the forged checks twelve in num ber gutbrle signed the name of mrs kiln n wilson whose home at 401 3 drexel boulevard was the first that he broke into among the loot were some of mrs wil son's canceled checks from which he cop ied her signature persons whose homes guthrie burglarized m the past six months named m the or der m which the burglaries were com mitted were the following mrs ella wilson 4<513 drexel boulevard samuel w aherton 1918 prairie avenue mrs charles p kellogg 1920 prairie avenue w r sterling 1616 prairie avenue mrs h o stone 4924 woodlawn avenue w o goodman 5026 greenwood avenue mrs otto young 2032 calumet avenue charles e ford 4023 drexel boulevard guthrie also confessed to the robbery of the residence of a w duraml which was not m the police records caught making bank deposit guthrie was caught yesterday morning by hugh c mccaffrey superintendent of the pinkerton detective agency he was m the act of making a deposit at the northern trust company when mccaffrey arrested him crossing washington street on la salle street on his way to the central station with his prisoner mccaffrey was bumped into by a pedestrian guthrie made good his momentary opportunity to escape by tripping mccaffrey who fell down guth rie ran west m washington street turned north m fifth avenue and was recaptured by traffic policeman john murtaugh at randolph street and fifth avenue he made a second attempt to escape at the entrance to the detective bureau inside a cell a minute later he attempted to swallow some incriminating papers among the papers which he tried to throw away or destroy were receipts for trunks left at the hebard express & van company warehouse 628 south winchester avenue three of the trunks were found at the hebard warehouse two at guthrie's home and the balance of the plunder was discov ered m a barn at 1725 west adams street which guthrie had rented two months ago the rare kellogg paintings all five of them were found wrapped m a newspaper and covered with straw m a manger when had you expected to sell all the loot the prisoner was asked after years had gone by and the rob beries had been forgotten he said my plans were carefully made it was reading detective stories that started me to steal ing diaz may come to u s former mexican ruler may buy new york mansion smclil cable to the examiner paris aug 3 ex-president porflrio diaz of mexico has an ambition to return to mexico to aid his stricken country failing m this he expressed an idea of going to the united states to spend the remainder of his life he plans it is de rlnred by his friends to buy the clark mansion m new york cfty and make it his funk heads state bull moose first convention is peaceful by william h culver frank h funk charges of boss rule hushed and opposition to suite dies calm platform as dictated by colo nel roosevelt with a plank favoring the judicial re call adopted with cheers three sessions held fight by deneen fails merriam jones organization men take a prominent part llinois was polite yesterday it opened the grand bull lloofie festivities of the nation with a love feast instead of a fight the progressive party's scate coa vention was a frolic thereby doing away with th fear that the national convention which opens to-mor row will bo marred by bitter feeling engendered m th state meeting frank h funk the bloomington farmer and repub lican state senator was nominated for governor by acclamation that was after it had been demonstrated by a call of half the roll that robert eaton the will county farmer was hopelessly beaten mr eaton himself was as polite as the state when his successful rival had been named he took the platform and declared that he was then as strong for funk as - any one and would campaign the state for him later in the convention mr eaton was persuaded to try for another nomination that of secretary of sta te but for a second time he was de feated that time it was not the leaders who were against him but the delegates rose up and broke the slate by naming edward o peterson of aurora eaton still for the whole ticket that was tough luck for so wilin g a candidate as eaton nad showaj himself to be but he still said that h e woum be for the whole ticket the nomination of the other slate candidates for the other places wao accomplished without any difficulty whatever the job was done as ensilj and as neatly as any ever accomplished by a well-oiled machine m 3n old party convention it was the cook county delegation â€” 415 strong that did the trick m all rases except m the peterson case that 415 was all but solid for the caucus candidates i ndicating that perhaps a little judl cious hand-picking was done when th ose delegates were selected also the state convention did everything that colonel theodore roosa velt chief bull moose of them all could or might have asked it to do if cheered the colonel's picture a very bad one but red-lighted and spot lighted for seven minutes it cheered every mention of his name genen ously and spontaneously but the cheering did not end the matter the convention seconded the motion for the colonel's pet progressive scheme â€” the recall of judi cial decisions where a question of the constitutionality of a law is iw volved and the rights of the people as a whole are involved and it wrote into the state platform a demand for a constitutional amendment tha will permit the enactment of the roosevelt proposition into law every plank is progressive the word progressive was burned into every plank of the plafci form so deeply that it is warranted never to come out some of thoa planks are for the initiative the ref erendum the recall a corrupt prao tices act a state industrial comml ssion a universal eight-hour law equal suffrage the direct election of senators a minimum wage scales the physical valuation of railroads the abolition of minority represent tion and a score of other things that bear the progressive label as another evidence of good faith m its progressive declarations th^t convention put miss jane adflams and mrs h wilmarth on its list of delegates-at-large to the national convention ranking them~with frank h funk and medill mccormick also m ade delegates-at-large the local roose velt leaders after the slate for the general st ate officers had gone through though the convention lost its reputation for politeness the leaders or if one might be so irreverent as to say the machine wanted to put over the nomi tion of two congressmen at large until a later date for reasons of policy but when the motion was made the o id familiar cry of steam roller wag raised and thde was a two hours nagging wrangle over the situation with the result that it was left to the state committee walter kirk blocks m'cormick walter kirk an aurora lawyer and a friend of peterson named for secretary of state saw a chance to get even with medill mecormiek for what the peterson men ca led the attempt to ditch their candidate and he took the chance every time mccormick would have a resolution re ported for the proposed postponement kirk would make a point of crder against it because of previously adopted rules and it would uave to be thrown out four such resolutions went to the waste basket m that way and finally the matter was just pissed over by common consent without anyone knowing just what had happened mccormick himself as floor leader for the organization marched up and down the platform all that time giving orders and he himself ray mond robins b f harris and john l hamilton all took & whirl at kiri and h were worsted all unite for third party what did not happen at this convention was a proof of the gooa feeling and the good intentions of the convention as a real thlrd-partit institution for instance after al the talk and bluster there was nevea a peep from any one against putting up a third ticket the deneen par tisans who had threatened a row on that issue took to the woods be fore the convention was convened t here was just one man who refused to aistt tha call fo the party and thereby bind himself and h was stew of bloomington he was chosen as nom inee for the governorship of Illinois by the bull moose convention yesterday after noon bull moose ticket this is the bull moose state ticket : for governor â€” frank h funk of bloomington for lieutenant governor â€” dean franklin of macomb for secretary of state â€” edward o peterson of aurora for attorney general â€” fletcher dobyns of Chicago for state treasurer â€” philip decker of monmouth for auditor â€” edward winter of danville university trustees â€” mrs ray mond robins Chicago frederick l hatch mchenry county b f harris champaign congressmen at large â€” left to state committee suffragist's speech halted by proposal young admirer tells margaret foley he earns 28 a week and sings m church choir cincinnati 0 aug 3.-miss margaret foley boston suffragist came to cincin nati for the sole purpose of helping suf frage campaigners secure the right to vote for ohio women but she may incidentally return with a husband while miss foley was speaking at a street meeting at sixth and elm streets nnd answering many ques tions put to her by the interested crowd of men one man called out say miss foley i want to ask one more question well questioned the suffragist will you marry me i am thirty-three years old the only bad habit i have is that i sing m a church choir i weigh 14u pounds i've been through high school and i make 2s a week i own " but the list of the wooer's accomplish ments was lost m the rumble of the auto that bore miss foley away we can't afford to lose one of our best speakers at this stage of the campaign explained mrs nina allender who was at the wheel steal 90,000 royal gems hotel thieves get jewels of late queen of portugal special cable to the examiner london aug 3 the weekly dig pnteh's madrid correspondent says that jewelry valued nt 00,000 belonging to tlie late queen murla pla of portugal has been stolen nt a hotel in lisbon from senor jose cruz who purchased the gems at auc tion at the bank of portugal suspicion has fallen on a young woman who was staying at the hotel she was traced to vlg'u where she met her husband and both embarked lor south amcrica s3es iuii icago and vicinity â€” gener isl'btj a ly warmer monday light to moderate i ' v northeast to east winds jpf'''f~<irqs > itnuse of ti'uii>eraturos j iÂ»oi 1.hh..51 !.'.'. 1.'.'.'.8 average 01 s news music s sports 7 want ads 4 â€” society heal est at foreign f1nanciai avios s magazine 8 â€” cityj-ife 9 â€” comic 6 editorial 10 â€” special scn drama dav magazine

Chicago examiner vol xiii no 5 a m c * sunday Chicago august 4 1912 price five cent sunday all car unions ready to strike crisis to-morro w overwhelming vote of men to guit work unless pay raise is granted will be put before the officials wiahon says he fears the worst t*"he crisis m the street railway situation is expected to-morrow inter na:ional presided w d mahon and the union committees will meet the officials of the Chicago railways company and Chicago city rail rtj company and notify them officially of tiro strike vote taken upon tb answer of the companies will depend whether there will je psacr or a titrike aucorcuns to international president w d mahon the vote for a strike was the greatest ever cast m any of the wage disputes of the car men and tie tokl the examiner that the situation is so serious he is greatly worried over it if the companies fail to make any wage concessions there is nothing on earth that can prevent a strike said he developments of the day developments m the other troubles of the car men are as follows president mahon visited the offices of the county traction company to notify the officials that a strike would be called on its lines if the employes were not permitted to join any union they wished and also that an advance m wages must be paid none of the company officials could be found and president mahon left his card and asked that general manager chambers call i him up when he returned later president mahon said the matter would go over until to-morrow negotiations between the elevated railroad employes and pres ident britton i budd will be resumed to-morrow representatives of several un ions not affiliated with the car men but whose members work for the traction companies held a conferenc with the union committees and pledged that a sympa thetic strike would be called if the car men quit work none of the traction officials had anything to say of the situa tion except to declare they had not taken any steps to hire strike breakers as they had no fear a strike would be called kepi esentatives of the three unions involved m the wage controversies held an extended meeting m the briggs house m the afternoon a id con sidered what should be done to-morrow at the conference with the trac tion officials the almost unan.'muus vote for a strike cast by the car men ' was said to be an ultimatum to the railway officials that the companies must t-ither grant increases m wag.is or suffer a strike president mahon told tile members of the committees that avery care must be takc-n not to make any fatal moves m the negotiations to-mor row as he feared tue worst . mahon tells of strike danger as he left the conference president mahon explained to the examiner representative how serious the situation had become we were told by the traction officials at our last conference that under no conditions would they change the wage scale or working condi tions said president jlahon but they said that if we withdrew our de mands for higher wages they were willing to consider the working condi tions further that was their ultimatum i have learned since that they hive not changed their minds and therefore i fear the worst arrangements were made jestcrday to call a strike on the county fraction and suburban railroad companies lines early m the week pvo ici!;s a concession m wages was not made after negotiations with divi sion no 241 these lines are outside the city limits there are about 300 uupioyes on the two lines and they voted friday night to give president william quintan and other officers of division no 241 full power to call the strike m the event that the company officials refused to grant con ces.ions i president emil c schmidt is out of town and will not return until tuesday according to president mahon the committee is not likely to a.\::r the return of president schmidt but will take up the matter with superintendent chambers who is understood to have full authority declares no increase will be granted no increase m wages win be granted said superintendent cham bers we are losing money now and could not stand an advance if a strike occurs the companies will simply cease operations one of the demands of the Chicago railways company and Chicago city railway company which was made during the recent negotiations with the car men was for a contract for only one year this feature of the company's position was discussed by the union officials with a view of analyzing the purpose m view some of the labor officials contended that the two companies were ar.ticipating a merger of the surface lines m i that time and that they would wish to make changes that would otherwise *, ofoiciden by the contract if it extended over a longer term it was finally decided that one year was too short a term for a wage contract and that m the event peace was established they would insist upon a longer term than they hud themselves suggested to the traction of situation is very serious i'm greatly worried mahon che Chicago street railway situation is the most serious we ever had i am greatly worried from our conferences with the traction officials and informa tion that has come to us since we are led to believe that the com panies are determined not to grant any concessions m wages whatever if that turns out to be a fact it will be impossible to hold the men look at the result of the strike vote â€” 52 to 1 no such vote favoring a strike was ever given m the past by the Chicago car men especially those on the south side i hope the traction officials will appreciate the seriousness of the situation as i see it signed w d mahon president amalgamated association of street and electric rail road employes official vote of the car men for strike against Chicago railways s,747 117 Chicago city rwy..3,192 54 totals 8,939 171 silver bath palace sold to chicagoan h stevenson retired tailor pays 40,000 for noted shagbark farm place like fairy land italian gardens and winding paths realization of f b whipple's life dream boston mass aug 3 just one hour i and a half after harry m stevenson the retired Chicago tailor had been shown over the splendid house with the silver baths and the other wonders of the fam ous shagbark farm jie said i'li take it and made a 10, itnuse of ti'uii>eraturos j iÂ»oi 1.hh..51 !.'.'. 1.'.'.'.8 average 01 s news music s sports 7 want ads 4 â€” society heal est at foreign f1nanciai avios s magazine 8 â€” cityj-ife 9 â€” comic 6 editorial 10 â€” special scn drama dav magazine